r/nextfuckinglevel 17h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/DukeBradford2 16h ago

Those vans are $100k new. Throw in another $10k to mod it and you are spending twice as much as a 2020 to 2023 class c 35ft

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 16h ago

Oh $10k doesn't come close to touching those mods lol

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u/Therealblackhous3 15h ago

Probably 10k for the rooftop bed lol.

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u/tsmc796 14h ago

Was literally about to say that.

I'd say 30-40k easily

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u/DengarLives66 16h ago

This is what they do so they got it at cost, but a custom mod like this would be $50k easy. I don’t begrudge them for it but this is like the Ritz-Carlton of sprinter vans.

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u/andrew_calcs 15h ago

Those vans are $50k new at the low end. Which is what you'd start with considering you're tearing out half the things to replace them anyway. The mods are on top of that. But you're still looking at a net outcome of $70k tops if you do the custom refit labor yourself like they did.

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u/The_0ven 14h ago

Those vans are $50k new at the low end. Which is what you'd start with considering you're tearing out half the things to replace them

You have no clue

The van in the video is not the 50k model

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u/andrew_calcs 9h ago

https://www.mbvans.com/en/sprinter

$48990 new. At the start you can clearly see they got the baseline windowless cargo van model. If they’d gotten one lightly pre-used it could have been much less. 

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u/The_0ven 2h ago

You need glasses if you think the van in the video is the base model

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u/shortsteve 15h ago

it's cheaper than that. You buy the base model and then mod it yourself. My uncle bought one, had a company do the mods. All in he was 150k, but that's paying top dollar for everything. The people here modded it themselves and saved a lot of money. I could see it costing 80~100k all-in for them.

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u/golgoth0760 11h ago

Lol way more than 10k

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u/Desurvivedsignator 14h ago

That can there is about 70k new, I'd say. Probably long wheelbase, the duallies in the rear imply AWD and it should be the high-roof version,l. With the high-output diesel, that totals at 73k. The mods probably run around the same.

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u/IntingForMarks 16h ago

what? how are these vans 100k? thats almost double the price I see in my country

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u/travelmusica 12h ago

They are going to be able to sell that van for a profit after they’re done enjoying it

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u/Fermit 16h ago

Okay, and?